Oakhaven Church Podcast
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344 episodes
05.17.26 - Ascension Sunday - Luke XIII: The King Ascending
The Apostle Paul quotes an ancient Christian hymn that encapsulates Jesus' mission in a few lines of poetry in his letter to the Philippians.
05.10.26 - Mother's Day - Monologues from Women in Scripture
We hear from "Mrs. Noah" and Sarai as they tell their stories of patient faith on Mother's Day at The Barn.
05.03.26 - Resurrection Ripples IV - Promise Made, Promise Kept
A great number of God's promises made since the beginning of time are fulfilled in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. There are many other promises that are still in force in our lives here and now. Since we know He kept earlier promises, we kno...
04.26.26 - Resurrection Ripples III
We will be resurrected to a new body that synthesizes spiritual and physical just like Jesus’. This captures Paul’s (and our) imagination and gives us certain hope. Jesus’ return coincides with the coming of the similarly synthesized “new heave...
04.19.26 - Resurrection Ripples II
We are still celebrating resurrection in this Season of Easter. Paul refers to the Resurrected Christ as the "firstfruits" of a massive resurrection harvest. Firstfruits are the first, best portion of the annual harvest that signal a bounteous ...
04.12.26 - Luke XII - Resurrection Ripples
Luke 24:30-49 The resurrection of Jesus has far-reaching implications in our lives. Understatement!
04.05.26 - Luke XI - Easter Sunday: It Is Finished
The resurrection of Jesus is the lens through which everything else in scripture is to be seen and understood. His victory over sin and death changes the universe, including our small portion of it.
03.29 - Palm Sunday Communion Meditation: Dirty Feet, Humility, and Unity
Larry looks at John's account of Jesus' last night with His disciples, beginning the evening by washing their feet, ending it by praying for their unity. And ours.
03.29.26 - Luke X - Palm Sunday: Recognizing the Time
Luke 19:28-44 is Dr. Luke's account of Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, launching what we call Holy Week. The good doctor is spare in his ...
03.22.26 - Luke XI - Comfort & Warning II
In the second half of His Sermon on the Plain in the Gospel of Luke, Jesus uses colorful, nearly comic illustrations to convey His primary po...
03.08.26 - Luke VIII - Comfort & Warning I
Jesus chooses His 12 closest disciples and then teaches for the first time in the Gospel of Luke in today's message. A parallel to the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew, Luke has Jesus convey the bulk of His teaching in today's Sermon on the Plain...
03.01.26 - Luke VII - A Fresh Start in Hope & Healing
Today’s Luke sequence begins with a miracle and ends with a parable, but parable is present from the beginning. The featured friends believe and care deeply enough to take dramatic action to bring a friend to Jesus. We can do the same with and ...
02.22.26 - Luke VI - The Call of Jesus
We come to Luke 5:1-11 in our journey through that gospel and see how Jesus customizes His call on Peter (and his gang) in a way uniq...
02.15.26 - Luke V - The Kingdom Has Come
Here's the audio podcast of Sunday's sermon, the next lesson from Luke's gospel. Jesus pushes back against darkness and brokenness as His kingdom break in, then and now.
02.08.26 - Luke IV - The Real Jesus at the Center
In Luke 4:14-30, Jesus is without honor in His hometown because everyone is too familiar with Him, His family, etc. We run the risk of being too ...
02.01.26 - Luke III - Identity Given & Tested
Focusing on Luke 3:21-4:13, Jesus begins His ministry by submitted to baptism by His predecessor, John. Jesus' identity is majestically confi...
01.25.26 - Luke II - Renewing Our Walk
The ministry of John the Baptist fulfills prophecies made about him by Isaiah and Gabriel, and as he calls the people to repent and be baptized, we are called to do the same, and if we've already done so, it's time to renew our commitments to t...
01.18.26 - Intro to Luke: Promises Made - Promises Kept
We begin a series on the Gospel of Luke today, whose first sentence states he will summarize "the things that have been fulfilled among us," in a far reaching work that begins with Gabriel's visit to Zechariah in the temple predicting the birth...
01.11.26 - Fresh Start - New Year - New Creation
The mercies of God are new every morning, and each day offers us a fresh start in Him. God is in the business of making all things new, including us, and He reminds us today of
01.04.26 - Christmas II - Kings & Magi
We focus today on the convergence of multiple themes around the visit of the wise men to the Christchild. In looking at that story today (in Matthew 2:1-1...
12.28.25 - Christmas I - Mild, He Lays His Glory By
One of the dangers of telling the Christmas story (or Easter, or how your grandparents walked from home to school uphill both ways...) as often as we do is that the stunning, mind-blowing aspects of God becoming human - and all that that means ...
12.21.25 - Advent IV - Love's Pure Light
The good news of Jesus begins with four humans and one angel: Zechariah and Elizabeth, Mary and Joseph, and Gabriel. The angel startles the humans with news of God’s upcoming action in and through their lives. Their different reactions are patt...
12.14.25 - Advent III - Joy - Ready or Not (Dramatic Narrative Sermon)
On this third Sunday of Advent we hear from someone intimately acquainted with the early goings-on associated with the Incarnation.
